Motivational Quotes

Time

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Time

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold